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Elections should be about policies for the future of Australia. Most election advertising focuses too heavily on why the other party is no good, rather than what this party will do to make things better. Comparing policies helps put the focus back where it should be – on what will be done, not why the…

Subsequent to its announcement in Tokyo about a month ago, Sony Computer Entertainment today issued a press release confirming its commitment to use the Blu-ray Disc ROM format as the primary storage medium for its next game console. The Blu-ray discs used in the next-generation PlayStation will reportedly be dual-layer, single-sided versions with a storage…

Questions are being raised about the safety of a GE food A major Australian/New Zealand food health and safety watchdog has admitted that they approved a variety of genetically engineered (GE) corn for human consumption without reviewing or even possessing the applicant’s test data. Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) had previously claimed that their…

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it has developed the industry’s first 2-Gigabit (Gb) DDR2 SDRAM utilizing 80-nanometer (nm) process technology. The high density, DDR2 solution will enhance server and workstation performance and enable faster deployment of memory-intensive applications like real time video conferences, remote medical service, two-way communications, and 3-D graphics, it said. Samsung said…

LONDON (Reuters) – Police say they have arrested a 20-year-old British man on suspicion of stealing Cisco Systems source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic across the globe. The man, who was not identified, was arrested on September 3 following raids on two houses in the Greater Manchester region and…

New data showing that patterns of water and methane in Mars’ atmosphere overlap may have important implications for the idea that the planet could harbour life. The finding comes from the Mars Express probe in orbit around the Red Planet. If microbes are making methane seen in Mars’ atmosphere, they would rely on water, so…

WIRELESS broadband networks will connect almost 287,000 Australian subscribers by 2008, a five fold increase on the 25,000 expected to get their high speed internet over the air this year, new research predicts. In the latest edition of its Australian Wireless Broadband Market Update, researcher IDC found that wireless broadband service providers, such as Sydney’s…

AUSTRALIA is a world leader in phishing scams and the fourth most common launching pad for internet attacks, research shows. A recent Symantec internet security threat report, which covers trends for the six months to June 30, ranks Australia fourth behind the US, China and Canada as the ‘last known source’ of internet attacks. Australia…

PRIME Minister John Howard today said he would not hesitate to launch an attack on another country if there was no alternative to protect Australians from terrorism. He also criticised Opposition Leader Mark Latham for failing to give the same assurance. Mr Howard said his first and foremost responsibility was to the people of Australia…

A draft report by the top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq concludes no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction were found, but there was evidence Saddam Hussein intended to resurrect weapons programs, U.S. government sources said on Thursday. Charles Duelfer, the CIA-appointed leader of the weapons hunt, was still finalizing the roughly 1,500 page-report, which…